Now I'm Convinced That The Children Of Dsmp Are Just The Long Lost Lovechildren Of Hc And Lifers

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Major Life Update

Here's some desert duo fanart for all your desert duo needs

Yes the characters aren't in the same artstyle as the bg what about it /silly

Anyways I love these two idiots sm yall don't even know

AGHHH MY STORAGDEEENDNSNSBDJJSNXNSN

WHAT IS THAT?????? 175???????? *cries in 32gb phone* *cries in potat phon* JDJENSIDJSISJEN

I use a spatula and tap the side of the egg directly onto the pan. If i have to mix it into sumth else I js slam it against the counter

can u guys rb this n add how you crack your eggs in the tags? i thought cracking them in the sinks’s edge is universal until i saw my friend cracking an egg on the counter instead and it was so pervese and diabolical

If I ever get married to a man and he becomes a Minecraft YouTuber that plays on an smp I’ll have no choice but to accept the fact that I’m in a poly relationship now, cause have you seen the way these men act around each other the second they log onto the silly little block game?

Like they’ll spend over two hours waxing poetry about how much they love one another with everything in their souls, how they want to make love under the stars, how the other is a piece of them that they’ll never truely be whole without the other and then in the middle of pretending to make out sloppy style they’ll stop and be like “oh gotta log off my wife of five years that I’m happily married too is calling for me” huh???

*taps mic* hello i am once again here to discuss the subversion of gendered tropes in the apothecary diaries when it comes to jinshi and maomaos growing romantic relationship and I'm surprised I didn't say this before bc its one of the most obvious examples but

can we talk about the way Jinshi just like... follows Maomao's lead? essentially. like not to say he doesn't take initiative or take charge of things but like.... can we talk about how he observes her (before she starts observing him too is what I'm referring to) and it's crucial to how he falls in love with her so much so that it's the one constant you see in official art; him watching her as shes inspecting plants, him literally following behind her. he learns from her not only about plants and poisons and medicine but about how to navigate the world outside of palace walls yk or how ppl outside the palace (esp women) live

and its so distinct bc usually in these historical dramas its always the WOMEN who learn from men. like its always the women who live sheltered lives and learn from men about the "real world"

jinshi is not afraid to be guided by her or learn from her, or even recognize that she may know more than him in certain situations, he values her intelligence even tho he's not only a man but a man of royal birth like literally who is doing it like him for real for real

I often analyze the Life Series through a lens of personal agency because I think it's a broadly applicable theme and it's also a theme that matters to me personally, so it's always stuck with me, maybe more than a lot of the fandom, how little agency Grian had in Third Life.

Scar and Grian's deal was in of itself was wildly unhealthy for Grian, I think. Obviously Scar didn't go out of his way try to make things hard for Grian, in fact, a lot of the things Grian did for him because of their deal were things Grian decided himself were his responsibility. But unconditional servitude is a very limiting and possibly even dehumanizing thing to agree to, and it clearly got to Grian. He frequently spoke about being unhappy, about wanting to leave, about how much he hated having to do what Scar says. And while some of that was for show, I also think there was a lot of very real regret over being caged, over giving away so much personal agency in a moment of guilt and obligation.

The first real choice Grian made was to stay with Scar, despite whatever resentment he'd built earlier, despite how much part of him wanted to leave.

This was punished quickly when Scar betrayed him, and possibly in the worst way possible. He tossed out a piece of paper, said whoever catches it lives. Grian couldn't catch it before Bdubs did, Grian couldn't convince his one ally not to help stab him to death, Grian couldn't fight back when it was two against one. He was helpless, in many ways in that moment. Nothing he did meant anything, nothing he did could have stopped it, Grian's first act of personal agency after so long being caged was to choose to stay with Scar, and Scar stabbed him for it while Grian tried (and failed, because nothing he did would have stopped it) to convince him not to.

Scar tried to make up for it (well, depending on whether you view scar's "you may slay me" as genuine or strategy) in a way I think is pretty meaningful all things considered. Scar kneeled, and he gave Grian the power to do what he would, let Grian choose. Which is possibly the best thing Scar could have done, when I see Grian feeling robbed of personal agency as such a big Thing in his Third Life pov.

But it didn't matter in the end. The spectators wanted a fight, and for one reason or another, Grian felt bound to their wishes. Maybe he would have wanted to kill Scar, or maybe he would have wanted to go home together and keep living, or maybe he would have wanted a fight if he could have chosen it. But Grian couldn't, he didn't have a choice. Grian was forced to kill Scar, and then he threw himself off the cliff, because there was no other option, nothing else to do.

I just feel like Grian is robbed of agency at so many turns in Third Life in a way we don't think about all that much.

Screaming crying throwing up i hate them sm /pos IM BACK IN THE FUCKING DESERT

There is Desert Duo and a llama in the same frame Im gonna throw up

even more popstars for tonight's lineup : life series winners edition

see the opening performance (griande and scarpenter) here

bonus scott under the cut (warning, a lot of skin... and me losing my sanity)

someone requested sabrina scottpenter... here you go (theres so much skin im sorry)

im ashamed to say how long i spent thinking about the nicknames. just have this mess if a scratch page . im going insane i think